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Twisting Supertall, a still.

Landmarks · Built from a recipe

Twisting Supertall

E5 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 628.9 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

A supertall is a skyscraper more than 300 meters (about 1,000 feet) tall.

Shelf
Landmarks
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Hands-on
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 628.9 Hz, 82 cents flat of E5, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Twisting Supertall's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1629 Hz
  2. 2886 Hz
  3. 3994 Hz
  4. 41131 Hz
  5. 51265 Hz
  6. 61353 Hz
  7. 71389 Hz
  8. 81450 Hz
  9. 91554 Hz
  10. 101605 Hz
  11. 111620 Hz
  12. 121697 Hz
  13. 131760 Hz
  14. 141829 Hz
  15. 151849 Hz
  16. 161894 Hz

How to play

Tap it to twist the tower further and send light up its glass.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Twist and light upTap
TwistButton
GlassColor#4f86ad

About it

A supertall is a skyscraper more than 300 meters (about 1,000 feet) tall. Some are built to twist as they rise: each floor sits turned a little from the one below. The twist is not just for looks: wind flowing past a tall building makes it sway, and a twisted shape breaks the wind up, so the tower sways less.

Tap it and the floors wring around further, in twelve solid bands with the top turning most, while a ring of light runs up the glass; then they unwind with a little sway as a second ring runs up. Pick the color of the glass in the Splash tab.

Details

Splats
Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,998 at Low, and up to 600,000 at Max

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

Share it

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

https://splashery.app/play/?toy=supertall<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="supertall"></splashery-toy>

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